Show t grave of thomas charles druce I 1 opened and hunan body found e witness sa d rested a roll of lead london the body of thomas charles aluce in high rate cemetery wag exhumed monday morning just forty three years to a day after its bureil the coffin vas found to contain the remains of a human body thus exploding the romantic tale told by robit caldwell and others ft ho swore during the recent hearing ot the druc perjury case that it con bained loll 1011 of lead the druce vault has thus given up its secant after ten years of legal proceedings ce which have cost all told a considerable fortune A large part of this mone was obtained from servant girls and other workers who were in deuced to buy shares in a company formed to prosecute the claims ot george hollamby druce against the estate if the duke of portland the charge of perjury against her bert druce Is effectively disposed of so far as the public is concerned the entire long drawn out druce duke of portland Port lind controversy is at an end and the case of the claimant george hollamby druce has fallen to the ground despite the finding of the body george H druce says that he is deter i mined to continue to push his claim or the estate and title of the portland dukedom in substance the story of robert caldwell whose testimony as a witness in the so called druce case led to the opening of the grave and upon which t e claim of the druce heirs for the great fortune and the title of the D ike of portland was based was to the effect that the duke of portland and druce a london store keeper were one and the same he had known the duke of portland under both names he said and at the request of the duke he had arranged a pretended death and mod funeral of druce so that his dual personality could be buried |